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4.1 Criminal Justice System Process | ICCS Crimes Levels 02 & 03
4.1.1.3 Persons brought into Formal Contact for: Drug possession (ICCS 06011)
Total of Persons brought into Formal Contact with the Police and/or the criminal justice system for Drug possession, at the national level.
"FORMAL CONTACT" may include persons suspected, or arrested, or cautioned, for a criminal offence, at the national level.

[Sources: Data are provided by Member States through the United Nations Survey on Crime Trends and Operations of Criminal Justice Systems (UN-CTS). Definition of “drug possession” is from the International Classification of Crime for Statistical Purposes (ICCS), p.63.]

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Antigua and Barbuda2020105 
Argentina------ 
Bahamas20201,359 
Barbados2020535 
Belize2020440 
Bolivia------ 
Brazil------ 
Canada202026,058 
Chile20201,035 
Colombia202038,938 
Costa Rica2018985 
Dominica2020136 
Dominican Republic------ 
Ecuador------ 
El Salvador20201,067 
Grenada2020233 
Guatemala201995 
Guyana2020260 
Haiti------ 
Honduras------ 
Jamaica2018612 
Mexico202074,192 
Nicaragua------ 
Panama2020186 
Paraguay20191,486 
Peru20204,404 
Saint Kitts and Nevis202040 
Saint Lucia2016147 
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines2019159 
Suriname2020365 
Trinidad and Tobago------ 
United States20201,001,914 
Uruguay------ 
Venezuela------ 
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01. Americas------ 
02. Caribbean------ 
03. Central America------ 
04. North America------ 
05. South America------ 
* Alertamerica adopts the use of commas to indicate figures un the thousands (1,000) while points signal decimals (10.5).